Whatever the rights and wrongs of the argument, the truth is that a quiet majority may well be in favour of seeing this majestic bird return to East Anglian skies.
In other words, deductive validity amounts to truth preservation: in a valid argument, the truth of the premises guarantees the truth of the conclusion.
That's a dubious argument; the truth is that the richest universities have relatively small enrollments of low-income students.
But for all the Jeffersonian sensibilities to the argument, the truth, some superdelegates say, is that choosing a nominee by this metric would cause as much harm as goodwill.
This is the way Richard writes up his summaries: Proposal of the sophism, sometimes within a casus; arguments establishing the truth of the sentence; arguments establishing the falsity of the sentence; resolution of the sophism along with identification of the sophistical fallacy involved.
A sophisma or sophism is neither a standard paradox of disputation nor a sophistical argument but a statement the truth of which is in question.
In some arguments, however, the truth of the premises does not fully guarantee the truth of the conclusion, but it still renders it highly likely.
Many philosophers deny that there are propositions precisely because they accept the validity of these Easy Arguments (and the truth of certain attitude ascriptions).
Thus one of the strongest arguments for the truth of the story of a circumnavigation of Libya is the detail, mentioned but not believed by Herodotus, that the sailors, when sailing west at the extreme limit of their voyage, saw the sun on their right hand.
